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OK, problem. We are currently linking to Categories with <nowiki>{{Category:Modeling}}</nowiki>. That displays the description of the category and they've all been filled in to have all the current pages. But that isn't the category, it's just a copy of it. If anyone wants to add to the description they've got to go and manually edit the page, defeating the point of having a category in the first place. We need to be able to list the category contents themselves on the page if we want it to keep itself up to date, or link through to the category pages and lose searchability. | OK, problem. We are currently linking to Categories with <nowiki>{{Category:Modeling}}</nowiki>. That displays the description of the category and they've all been filled in to have all the current pages. But that isn't the category, it's just a copy of it. If anyone wants to add to the description they've got to go and manually edit the page, defeating the point of having a category in the first place. We need to be able to list the category contents themselves on the page if we want it to keep itself up to date, or link through to the category pages and lose searchability. | ||
--[[User:Tom Edwards|Tom Edwards]] 11:25, 28 Jun 2005 (PDT) | --[[User:Tom Edwards|Tom Edwards]] 11:25, 28 Jun 2005 (PDT) | ||
Doing it this way allows the topics to be manually arranged in a useful order on this page by editing the Category pages. But, yeah, there should probably also be a link to each category page here so you can also jump to the alphabetical lists. -[User:Mungo] | |||
Revision as of 11:43, 28 June 2005
The idea of having a 'community area' for the documentation index seems redundant. Over time, I wouldn't want the site to split into the areas that Valve authored vs. the areas that the community authored. Does it make sense to roll this into the rest of the index? Erik Johnson
I agree. I think it will complicate the process of finding the information you want, mix up the Wiki categorization, and make us wonder if it's okay to edit the original documents. And there are already a few documents written that have already been mixed in.
- Mungo
I played it safe and assumed you wouldn't want the two mixed. I'll merge them now. --Tom Edwards 11:10, 28 Jun 2005 (PDT)
OK, problem. We are currently linking to Categories with {{Category:Modeling}}. That displays the description of the category and they've all been filled in to have all the current pages. But that isn't the category, it's just a copy of it. If anyone wants to add to the description they've got to go and manually edit the page, defeating the point of having a category in the first place. We need to be able to list the category contents themselves on the page if we want it to keep itself up to date, or link through to the category pages and lose searchability. --Tom Edwards 11:25, 28 Jun 2005 (PDT)
Doing it this way allows the topics to be manually arranged in a useful order on this page by editing the Category pages. But, yeah, there should probably also be a link to each category page here so you can also jump to the alphabetical lists. -[User:Mungo]